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Welcome to Pokemon Perfect, Guest!

Our motto is Pokémon Practice makes Pokémon Perfect. We are a competitive-battling community that encourages the development of players and their ideas, and fosters positive and respectful attitudes. We love Collaboration (working together), Competition (getting stronger), and Communication (being informed).

You are free to post everywhere, unless the thread explicitly states otherwise (usually in the case of a vote), and there are no private forums whatsoever. We just require you to not make multiple accounts. Let us greet you by posting a thread in the Introduce Yourself! forum.

Tiers

View Introduction to Tiers if you don't know what tiers are. Pokémon Perfect tiers are named differently to those on Smogon. A numeral followed by the letter U, e.g. 1U, 2U, 3U, represents a main tier on Pokémon Perfect – the '1' of '1U' representing the tier level. For a tier to be a main tier, it must be balanced (nothing is too powerful and game-breaking) and diverse enough (include a variety of Pokémon and strategies). A numeral followed by the letter P, e.g. 1P, 2P, 3P contain all Pokémon that are deemed overpowered in the respective 1U, 2U, 3U tiers. The 1st tier level allows Pokémon that are banned in the 2nd level, and this process continues down. Read the tier list, and in-depth explanations of the tiers naming system and tiering system. Also check out our analyses for all tiers.

Tournaments

RBY 1U Seasons and its master tournaments are responsible for starting up the community, and tournaments continue to play a big role in maintaining interest in the forums. Signups Open gives you a list of tournaments you can join, and Ongoing lists tournaments that you might want to follow. Additionally, you can tap to find out approximate Schedules for tournaments.

Play a first-to-3-wins (BO5) series against your opponent. Any games resulting in a tie are to be ignored.

3 points are awarded for winning a round. 1 point is awarded for every won game in a series that was lost. Series 31L does not award any points, but the winner receives a bronze medal.

Seeding is done using RBY OU Player Rankings #14. The top 50% of players are assigned seeds using a variation of the pool-shuffling method elucidated by Lutra in [this thread].

Any player who does not get an opportunity to play in this tournament is guaranteed a spot in the next one.

Any matches not played by the deadline are subject to activity calls by the host, namely, may be coin flipped or result in an activity win being granted to a player who has made greater effort to ensure that the game is played. Additionally, any player deemed inactive can be substituted out at the contact deadline.

Both forum and simulator activity are taken into account in order to determine whether a player has made the required effort in the situation of an unplayed match. It is each player's own responsibility to make the host aware of activity in other places like Smogon or Discord, for example by posting in the thread, or by contacting me on Discord (ErPeris#6024).

Only minimal extensions will be granted in the case that a major real-life event has prevented the match from happening, and under the condition that both players already agreed on a time that lies at most 72 hours past the deadline. This will be strictly enforced throughout the tour.

Any calls I make in specific games can be contested for 24 hours. If no objection is made during that time, the decision is final and will not be changed.

For scheduling, leave a visitor message (VM) on your opponent's wall. In case of an activity call, VM activity will be considered above everything else. Scheduling on Discord or Smogon is also possible, but keep in mind that the host cannot trace this by himself in case of an activity situation, so it is your own responsibility to make him aware of your activity.

Games are to be played on Pokemon Showdown, with Pokemon Online serving as an alternative if both players agree. Pokemon Perfect has its own Showdown [server], which is the most recommended place to play games.

Round 1 - Contact Deadline: 13th of March, Final Deadline: 18th of March

I would like to remind everyone that the contact deadline is tomorrow.
All those who do not schedule in time will be replaced: not a single day of extension will be given. If you are in contact with other players on discord or on other forums please let me know, just like HML am did.

lost 2 games and then won 3... definitely got lucky in some of them and misplayed in most of them, but there were some glorious moments like flareon taking me into game 4 and counter lax in both games 4 and 5 x ggs what a ride! Genesis you're really good I'm surprised I won the set, wp

I guess they were ggs, apparently like every other set of rby/pokemon nowadays. Well, I'm sorry for wasting our time and not forfeiting the series after the 8th turn of g2, as I didn't feel like playing after that and I was just messing around to be honest. I don't know, it's probably time to find a new way to spend my free time instead of begging the random number generator to do me some favours in a simulation of a pocket monsters game !
(I'll still complete my remaining tournament sets, just out of respect for the competition)

As i already told you before, i don't think you should complain about the games we had 'cause you had your lucky moments too imo, but i understand that this game can be frustrating sometimes.

"SToss vs. Recover mons resulting in me FPing until dead/him recovering without issue"
Situations like this one happened exactly the same to me against you in MT #50. I think it happens, it's just the game we play: luck turns once to you, once to me.

However this makes me think about how good Ref-Seismic Chansey is right now (well, not only rn, but you all know what i mean). That set was really DOMINANT in the games we have just played. I usually love to change my sets and my mons (in fact i brought 3 different leads, an Eggless team, 2 different Eggs, 2 diffrent 6th, 2 different Tauros and 3 different Lax in only 3 games) but i have never changed my Chansey's set.

Last but absolutely not least, GGs, you played well and you really deserve a lot of respect for the way you played against me. I wish you some more luck in the next Tours (well, not against me...).

ReflectChans is definitely ridiculous, only beaten by a Sing IB Chansey that lands both the sing AND freeze. When a para'd Pokemon that is balanced by being vulnerable to physical attacks beats Selfdestruct Snorlax, Zapdos and fresh Tauros, something's wrong. I'm starting to lean #BanReflect.

You played very well yourself, and it might just be salt on my end. Besides a couple key moments our games were otherwise free of hax, so close to being really good games.

won in 3 vs ErPeris, ggs
g1 especially was really wild, i got into a very advantageous situation with luck but then bull went full bull and the game looked over but my own bull blizzard froze it, def worth a watch imo!